Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book

Title Disability and the university : a disabled students' manifesto / Chris McMaster and Benjamin Whitburn, editors ; with a foreword by Mike Oliver
Published New York, NY : Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., [2019]
©2019

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  378.0087 Mcm/Dat  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 201 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Political struggle for inclusion in higher education / Ben Whitburn and Christopher McMaster -- Slowness, disability, and academic productivity : the need to rethink academic culture / Travis Chi Wing Lau -- Disability advocacy within the ableist environment of academia / Denise Beckwith -- The violent consequences of disclosure ... and how disabled and mad students are pushing back / Fady Shanouda -- Negotiating the space of academia as a disabled student / Leechin Heng -- Disability studies in higher education : developing identity and community / Megan Zahneis -- Beyond compliance : disabled student activism on campus / Justin Freedman, Laura Jaffee, Katie Roquemore, Yosung Song and Hetsie Swarz Veitch -- Reasonable adjustments / George Low -- But you look fine : limitations of the letter of accommodation / Zoie Sheets -- Universalizing international exchange for students with disabilities / Justin Harford -- The need for systemic supports : barriers faced by students with disabilities in the majority world / Mostafa Attia -- "I can't even reach the waffle-maker!" : increasing access for students with physical disabilities on university campuses / April B. Coughlin -- Assistance dogs and academia: supporting the dynamic duo / Georgia Geller -- A hierarchy of impairments : the absence of body size in disability accommodations within universities / Erin Pritchard -- Creating an accessible and resilient environment inside the Indian university / Boopathi P. and Muruganandan K. -- Disabled by society : knowing and invoking your rights / Katelin Anderson and Beth Rogers -- Identifying and eliminating digital barriers / Karen McCall -- Navigating the mud of tertiary education : the experience of disabled students in the global south / Tafadzwa Rugoho -- Even the delusional can learn : the recognition of diverse states of mind, knowing and being / Maree Roche -- From classification to culture : learning disabilities in higher education / Matthew Bereza
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject College students with disabilities
College students with disabilities -- Political activity
Inclusive education
Genre/Form Deakin authored content
Author McMaster, Christopher (Christopher Todd), editor
Whitburn, Ben, editor
Oliver, Michael, 1945-2019, writer of foreword
LC no. 2019007081
ISBN 9781433167799
1433167794
9781433167805
1433167808